Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said a grand jury indicted three Woodbridge police officers today on charges they tried to cover-up a single-vehicle collision that one of them had caused.
Brian Joseph, 33, of Perth Amboy, David Hughes, 31, of the Port Reading section of Woodbridge, and Amanda Felicies, 30, of the Fords section of Woodbridge, were charged in the six-count indictment with two counts of official misconduct and a related count of conspiracy for failing to file a report and changing computer records that had documented the crash.
In addition, Officer Hughes was charged with falsifying public records and tampering with public records to conceal the crash, while Officer Felicies was charged with false swearing by lying under oath to police during an investigation into the cover-up.
The charges were filed after an investigation by the Woodbridge Police Department determined that Hughes and Felicies were dispatched to the motor vehicle crash in the township on May 23, 2015.
Officer Joseph, who was off-duty at the time, was traveling north on Route 9 and was exiting onto West Pond Road when his Mitsubishi sport utility vehicle jumped the curb, was damaged and could not be driven.
The investigation determined that Officer Hughes filed a false report on May 23, 2015 to protect Joseph. Officer Felicies subsequently provided false information under oath on January 19, 2016, the grand jury charged.